Bender, Cecil

Picher Oklahoma, Jan 8. Cecil Bender, 21 years of age, employed as a tubhooker at Underwriters Mine No. 4 near Douthat Oklahoma, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock when he was struck by a falling can of ore. Bender had attache a tub of ore to a cable and had given the signal for it to be lifted. When the can was about 35 feet from the bottom of the shaft it fell, striking Bender on the head. His neck was broken. Bender is a son of William Bender of Quapaw Okla-homa. The body is being held at the parlors of the Todd Undertaking company for burial arrangements.

Douthat Oklahoma, Jan. 8--Cecil Bender was instantly killed by a falling can of dirt at the Underwriters Mine No. 4, near Douthat at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. Bender was 21 years old and was working as a tub hooker at the time of the accident. His father, William Bender, of Quapaw Oklahoma, worked at the same mine, but did not see the fatal accident.

Funeral services for Cecil Bender, who was killed in a mine accident at Douthat Oklahoma on Wednesday, was held at Galena Kansas, Friday afternoon, with the Rev. Mrs. Love officiating. Burial was in the Oak Hill cemetery at that place.

The funeral of Cecil Bender, 21 years old, who was killed at the Underwriter Mine No. 4, Friday, in Douthat Oklahoma when a can of ore and rock fell on him was held Saturday afternoon from the home of his aunt Mrs. Cary Potter in Galena Kansas. The burial was in the Oak Hill cemetery at Galena. Note: There is some difference in information between the two articles.